i have been reading a text but cant get my head round this term tattle ,whats the full explanation of tattle ?
Context? In the UK, it means something like gossip.
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Was that use of tattle in a programming text?
I certainly don't recall hearing it outside of the gossip or telling tales usage.
you should be running for US president
No,, that was Taft
on page 158 of arduino internals
or did i dream it ...........
Ah, well, seeing as the work done by that routine is to print "I'm telling", then calling the routine tattle makes sense. To tattle means to tell, as in tell tales on someone.
But seeing as it's a routine name, it could just as easily have been named qwerty....
In the linked text, "tattle" is an arbitrary function name. "report" could have been a synonym with the same sort of secondary meaning, or it could have been "user_isr1_function" and the program wouldn't have cared...
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i have been reading a text but cant get my head round this term tattle ,whats the full explanation of tattle ?
Bottom line, the names that a programmer chooses for user written functions, variables, constants, etc, are chosen to mean or remind someone reading the source code sketch what the things represents to them. All the names disappear from the actual compiled code that is uploaded to the arduino board. Good naming of these items as well as good comments added to the source code go a long way to make the code more understandable to other people or even the original programmer reading the sketch after some time has passed.
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i get it now , i thought it was a basic function but couldnt see it in the arduino function list ,i wasnt aware it can be a made up function ..
i don the dunces hat ...........................